Sunday's premiere was "so visually dark that viewers can’t even see what’s happening on screen," says Zack Sharf. "Many fans took to social media during the episode to complain about the color palette, with some wondering if it was their TV brightness setting that was the issue...The shadows on display in the Thrones Season 8 premiere speaks to a recent trend of TV dramas being too dark to see. Netflix’s Ozark became the poster child for this issue in its second season as characters’ faces were blocked by darkness. The intention was to make Ozark look and feel as visually brooding as its bleak subject matter, but the end result was a color palette so dark it made the series feel less compelling...Light and shadow can be a powerful tool to depict the internal moral dilemmas of a character, but lean too much towards darkness and the result is just viewers squinting to figure out what they’re watching."
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TOPICS: Game of Thrones, HBO, George Lucas, George R.R. Martin, James Corden, Kit Harington, Liam Cunningham, Maisie Williams, Pilou Asbæk, Cinematography